A large mirroring element is located in front of an occupant who sits in a front seat of an autonomous on-road vehicle. The large mirroring element provides the effect of reflecting light arriving from the occupant's direction. Optionally, a camera takes video of the outside environment in front of the occupant, sends the video to a computer that generates a representation of the outside environment in front of the occupant at eye level, and a display located in front of the occupant presents the representation to the occupant.

Described herein is utilization of nontransparent Shock-Absorbing Energy Dissipation Padding (SAEDP) in an autonomous on-road vehicle. In one embodiment, the vehicle includes a side window located at eye level of an occupant who sits in the vehicle. The side window enables the occupant to see the outside environment. A motor is configured to move the SAEDP over a sliding mechanism between first and second states. A processor is configured to command the motor to move the SAEDP from the first state to the second state responsive to an indication that a probability of an imminent collision reaches a threshold. In the first state, the SAEDP does not block the occupant's eye level view to the outside environment, and in the second state, the SAEDP blocks the occupant's eye level view to the outside environment in order to protect the occupant's head against hitting the side window during collision.

Described herein is utilization of nontransparent Shock-Absorbing Energy Dissipation Padding (SAEDP) in an autonomous on-road vehicle. In one embodiment, the vehicle includes a side window located at eye level of an occupant who sits in the vehicle. The side window enables the occupant to see the outside environment. A motor is configured to move the SAEDP over a sliding mechanism between first and second states. A processor is configured to command the motor to move the SAEDP from the first state to the second state responsive to an indication that a probability of an imminent collision reaches a threshold. In the first state, the SAEDP does not block the occupant's eye level view to the outside environment, and in the second state, the SAEDP blocks the occupant's eye level view to the outside environment in order to protect the occupant's head against hitting the side window during collision.

The invention relates to a luggage compartment separator (1) that changes the luggage compartment width in the vehicles with the component parts of two telescopic roof rails (2) that are positioned parallel to one another; four roof brackets (3) that enable said roof rails (2) to be mounted to the roof of the vehicle and are arranged at a quantity of two per roof rail (2); the top mat (4) that is positioned to separate the top-seat compartment of the vehicle and hangs down from said roof rail (2); the bottom mat (5) that is positioned adjacent to said top mat (4); at least one lock mechanism 1 (6) on said top mat (4) for enabling the top mat (4) to be secured to the side surface of the vehicle; the lock mechanism 2 (7) on the bottom mat (5) for connecting the bottom mat (5) and the top mat (4) with each other in both open and closed positions and for enabling the same to remain stationary; and the fixing mechanism (8) that enables the bottom mat (5) to be secured to the vehicle floor when in open position.

A cargo space divider net configured to be arranged in a vehicle in a first mounting position or a second mounting position, the cargo space divider net including a winding shaft; a winding shaft housing in which the winding shaft is rotatably supported; a pull out profile; a web shaped net contexture which is arranged with a first edge at the winding shaft and with an edge that is remote from the winding shaft at the pull out profile; a retrieval drive which causes a wind up of the net contexture onto the winding shaft and against whose winding force the net contexture is pullable from the winding shaft into a first functional position or a second functional position as a function of a mounting position of the cargo space divider net in the motor vehicle; a pull out limiter which prevents a pull out travel of the net contexture beyond an amount that is necessary for reaching a functional position, wherein the cargo space divider net includes a detection device configured to detect the mounting position, wherein the detection device controls the pull out limiter as a function of the mounting position in order to correctly limit the pull out travel.

A device is provided for fastening a catch net (9) to secure a load in a vehicle in a motor vehicle with a loading region (3) that is substantially open to a passenger region (4). Fastening eyes (10, 11, 12, 13) for the secured fastening of the catch net (9) are integrated in the supporting structure in the upper region of the seat backrest (5) and/or of a neck rest (6, 7).

Protection device for a vehicle interior compartment including a flexible planar structure displaceable between rest and protective positions. On a face end region of the planar structure, a dimensionally stable guiding profile is provided, which is guided in vehicle-fixed guiding tracks. Each side of the guiding profile is associated with a coupling member in operative connection with an entrainer guided in the respective guiding track by a retaining device acting in a force-limited manner. The entrainers are shiftable in mutual synchronization within the guiding tracks by a drive system. The coupling members are in operative connection to the entrainers eccentrically offset in relation to a central longitudinal axis of the guiding profile, and the coupling members are removable from the entrainers in response to external strains of the guiding profile in directional components which are orthogonal in relation to a plane of deployment of the planar structure.

Described is a passenger seat having a seat bottom, a seat back, and a privacy divider. The seat back may have a stationary portion and a moveable portion, wherein the moveable portion is substantially upright in stowed position and is substantially horizontal over the seat bottom in a deployed position. The privacy divider may be coupled to at least an upper surface of the moveable portion in the deployed position.

A cargo divider between a first vehicle seat backrest and a second vehicle seat backrest used when one of the first or second backrest is folded down. The divider includes a first structure part along a lateral edge of the first backrest adjacent the second backrest, including a first top section, a first middle section and a first bottom section; a second structure part arranged along a lateral edge of the second backrest adjacent the first backrest, including a second top section, a second middle section and a second bottom section; a first wire having a first end attached to the first top section and a second end attached to the second top section; one or a plurality of further wires including a first end attached along the first middle section and a second end attached correspondingly along the second middle section.

A cargo divider between a first vehicle seat backrest and a second vehicle seat backrest used when one of the first or second backrest is folded down. The divider includes a first structure part along a lateral edge of the first backrest adjacent the second backrest, including a first top section, a first middle section and a first bottom section; a second structure part arranged along a lateral edge of the second backrest adjacent the first backrest, including a second top section, a second middle section and a second bottom section; a first wire having a first end attached to the first top section and a second end attached to the second top section; one or a plurality of further wires including a first end attached along the first middle section and a second end attached correspondingly along the second middle section.